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Another word for pitiless

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pitiless

modif.

unfeeling, merciless, obdurate, unpitying, callous, soulless, heartless, cold, frigid, stony, insensible, uncaring, iron-hearted, unsympathetic, unmerciful, hardhearted, austere, cold-blooded, inhuman, brutal, ruthless, remorseless, relentless; see also cruel 2, indifferent 1, remorseless 1, ruthless 1, 2.

Antonyms kind*, kindly, compassionate. See syn. study at cruel.cruel.

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Another word for pitiless

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Having or showing no mercy:

merciless, remorseless, unmerciful. See kind

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Sion is urged to cry to the Lord in protest against His pitiless work (verses 18-22).
Cavallotti then began against him a pitiless campaign of defamation.
That his brother retained the throne while James lost it is an ironical demonstration that a more pitiless fate awaits the ruler whose faults are of the intellect, than one whose faults are of the heart.
On the 18th of December 1573 Alva, who to the end had persisted in his policy of pitiless severity, left Brussels, carrying with him the curses of the people over whom he had tyrannized for six terrible years of misery and oppression.
In the struggle between the Mountain and the Girondists he displayed great energy; and after the coup d'etat of the 31st of May 1793 he made himself conspicuous by his pitiless pursuit of the defeated party.

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